Originally Posted by
GliderCFI
You may want to do a little research on the actual decision. A large part of it involved not restricting free speech among organizations/associations, and that giving money to a campaign in democracy was a part of free speech. (This is where the whole "organizations are people too" thing came from). Sounds okay, but the problem is YOUR donations given to a candidate can't touch what a corporation like a large pharmaceutical company, or say, a large bank, can give. Money in politics = power over politians. That's why you have candidates with voting records in favor of shutting down congressional investigations into shady opiod distribution and over-eager lending. Follow the money. The only thing worse than the "swampy" money in politics is when someone appoints former leaders of said swampy companies for cabinet postions. But the people who fell for the "drain the swamp" BS stopped paying attention after election night.
C.U. continues to be a persistant low information voter bumper sticker politics talking point. There is simply no way to "get money out of politics" without massive government control of politics. Not to mention that leftist candidates, causes and issues are benefitting mightily from unlimited funding from corporations and billionaires. We're seeing it more and more in fringe populist ballot initiatives and pop culture candidates like the skateboarding billionaire man of the people in TX and the pajama boy manchurian candidate in GA, almost all with record shattering out of state money that dwarfs anything from the so called right.
While I don't like that, there is simply no way to empower the government to stop it without striking a massive blow at freedom of expression that amounts to government censorship and control of the process. We simply can't give the government the power to cencor and outlaw a film that someone wants to freely watch simply because its "election season". That's insane.
Here's a short and very easy read on C.U. but be warned, its from a super alt-right fringe conservative source called the LA Times.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...226-story.html